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Viewing Album:  1960's Time Capsule
 
By:Steve J Rush
Dates:1/1/1965 - 1/1/1972
Album Info:The only thing about opening a time capsule and "Returning to Yesterday" is that the things that you might find there, are perhaps at best, only good for a limited number of people! As to why this might be, About these things I do not know and I can not say, except that Some people will understand and Some people will not! This is just the way it is! Some people dream a different dream--- because they have been told a different story. Thus they see things, in a different way. Some of these pictures I have not looked at or seen in over 40 years! They were taken in the middle to late 1960's by the young stallion that I once was back in those days when I was in high school or when I was working the interlocking towers on the Milwaukee Road near St Paul Yard and the St Paul Union Depot. It will take some time to review and upload the best of the several hundred pictures that there are in this collection. A special thanks to my friend Chris who works on the Amtrak desk on the mighty BNSF. Without his help and generosity, these images as he calls them would possibly not yet have been scanned, and I would not yet be uploading them, and thus not sharing them with you! Most of the dates for these pictures will be a guess or approximation of a date within the middle to late 1960's. I remember the places, but not so much the dates.
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waiting for work
Title:  waiting for work
Description:  resting between assignments, we found this collection of engines at the water tower at Stinson Yard
Photo Date:  10/25/1969  Upload Date: 9/25/2010 1:28:14 AM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2380(RS3) SOO 2123(SW1200) SOO 313(S12)
Views:  2055   Comments: 2
Slow Clear
Title:  Slow Clear
Description:  according to the 1967 Consolidated Code, the NP and the SP&S used speed signals compared to the GN and others which used route signals. It is two different ways of doing the same thing. The signals might have looked the same, but they did not relay nor convey the same indications or information. Thus it was very important to know upon whose railroad it was that you were operating! Notice that the lower semaphore arm is shorter than the upper one indicating that it is an indication as to speed and not a route to be used through the interlocking. Speed signals could use flashing yellows and flashing greens as where route signals did not. On some railroads, dwarf signals were slow speed signals only and on other railroads, they carried and relayed the same indications as did their much higher and taller brothers who often stood close by, if not alongside of them. One of my favorite signals appeared as flashing yellow over flashing green and was called by the name "Limited Clear Approach Medium"! So it was in those days, when different people in different places did and often dared to understand, the same things differently!
Photo Date:  11/1/1969  Upload Date: 6/3/2010 4:58:41 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  397   Comments: 0
Classic NP
Title:  Classic NP
Description:  looking west at St Anthony Park or the Union Cutoff as it was later known after the interlocking tower was gone. Semaphores and wooden cabooses, I just love it! And there was not then a whole lot for computers either! "Big Brother" just did NOT know where everyone was nor what it was that they were doing! The question is, are we any better off or do we feel any safer, now that he does?!
Photo Date:  11/1/1969  Upload Date: 6/3/2010 5:19:37 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  445   Comments: 0
CB&Q 248
Title:  CB&Q 248
Description:  at Daytons Bluff--- date unknown
Photo Date:  12/1/1969  Upload Date: 5/6/2010 1:28:28 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  CBQ 248(GP7)
Views:  769   Comments: 3
CB&Q 931
Title:  CB&Q 931
Description:  at Daytons Bluff--- date unknown
Photo Date:  12/1/1969  Upload Date: 5/6/2010 2:10:16 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  CBQ 931(GP20)
Views:  680   Comments: 2
another view
Title:  another view
Description:  Perhaps this one is better?!
Photo Date:  12/1/1969  Upload Date: 6/1/2010 2:20:55 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CBQ 9411B(NW2)
Views:  539   Comments: 0
climbing up the hill on the NP double track
Title:  climbing up the hill on the NP double track
Description:  this CB&Q transfer was observed climbing the hill out of St Paul and the Great River valley. They were heading west towards Northtown and had just passed Trout Brook Jct and Mississippi Street. Sometimes there were two engines and sometimes three, but this was typical of the way that things were done. And yes, the engines always faced west as they ran around the Twin Cities making connections with other railroads! But one day soon the inbound power from La Crosse would no longer cutoff at Daytons Bluff and the "Red Birds" as they were known would run thru as they took their trains and made their connections with Great Northern and the Northern Pacific. And my time on the Milwaukee Road would be interrupted and cut short by the period of time that I spent in the US Navy Submarine service. But I did not know that when I returned home, that it would be the beginning of 30 years as a trick dispatcher on the Burlington Northern Railroad!
Photo Date:  12/1/1969  Upload Date: 5/31/2010 6:45:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CBQ 9411B(NW2)
Views:  393   Comments: 0
Big Sky Blue
Title:  Big Sky Blue
Description:  GN gp20s at Minneapolis Jct
Photo Date:  12/1/1969  Upload Date: 6/6/2010 2:51:43 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  GN 2014(GP20) GN 2025(GP20)
Views:  1127   Comments: 0
Big Sky Blue
Title:  Big Sky Blue
Description:  GN sd45s at Minneapolis Jct
Photo Date:  12/1/1969  Upload Date: 6/6/2010 2:49:22 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  GN 413(SD45) GN 418(SD45)
Views:  2348   Comments: 1
GN caboose track
Title:  GN caboose track
Description:  all steel caboose x61 at Minneaplois Jct
Photo Date:  12/1/1969  Upload Date: 6/6/2010 3:16:45 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  643   Comments: 0
engine CNW 1041
Title:  engine CNW 1041
Description:  I was very happy when I found this one! I just sometimes wish that there was a few more pictures!
Photo Date:  12/20/1969  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 1:25:41 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CNW 1041(VO-1000M)
Views:  443   Comments: 0
CNW 1085
Title:  CNW 1085
Description:  the clouds that day did not help much, but at least I got the picture. Don't miss the GN grain cars!
Photo Date:  12/20/1969  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 1:37:13 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CNW 1085(S2)
Views:  494   Comments: 0
yard engines
Title:  yard engines
Description:  CNW 1087 & 1044... I wish that I had a few more pictures of these guys!
Photo Date:  12/20/1969  Upload Date: 7/20/2010 1:54:13 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CNW 1087(S2) CNW 1044(VO-1000M)
Views:  827   Comments: 0
CNW 1087
Title:  CNW 1087
Description:  Alco yard engine CNW 1087 takes a break. You can see the grain elevators at the Railway Transfer yard to the right near downtown Minneapolis--- but sadly it is almost all gone and not there today!
Photo Date:  12/20/1969  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 1:20:55 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CNW 1087(S2)
Views:  619   Comments: 0
in a time before
Title:  in a time before
Description:  there was once a time when the paint schemes had just a little bit extra!
Photo Date:  12/20/1969  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 1:30:50 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CNW 1089(S2)
Views:  496   Comments: 0
at Cedar lake
Title:  at Cedar lake
Description:  and so it was beginning, as a lot of the things that we loved were starting to disappear!
Photo Date:  12/29/1969  Upload Date: 6/19/2010 3:35:35 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CGW 114A(F3A)
Views:  856   Comments: 1
"Bad News" was arriving
Title:  "Bad News" was arriving
Description:  a lot of bad news was arriving for a lot of people as I was leaving home for the US Navy! IT was not the thing that I wanted, but I was not the only one. When I returned home and hired out on the Burlington Northern, a lot of the world that I had known from my days on the Milwaukee Road was either changed or gone!
Photo Date:  12/29/1969  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:17:27 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  CNW 4054A(F9AM)
Views:  754   Comments: 2
the big horses had arrived
Title:  the big horses had arrived
Description:  Maybe it was better with the red and purple F7 A's and B's, but these are also nice!
Photo Date:  12/31/1969  Upload Date: 6/19/2010 3:39:45 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CGW 805(GP30) CGW 804(GP30)
Views:  958   Comments: 1
another look
Title:  another look
Description:  the yard engine takes a short break to let the road engine make a move
Photo Date:  12/31/1969  Upload Date: 6/19/2010 3:42:08 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CGW 805(GP30) CGW 804(GP30) CGW 54(RS2)
Views:  1155   Comments: 1
out on the lead
Title:  out on the lead
Description:  Alco engine CGW 54 works on the lead at State Street yard
Photo Date:  12/31/1969  Upload Date: 6/19/2010 3:31:13 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CGW 54(RS2)
Views:  725   Comments: 0
Milwaukee "Skally"
Title:  Milwaukee "Skally"
Description:  Milwaukee power waiting to head home to St Paul Yard, is seen here at the Northern Pacific Rices Point roundhouse in Duluth.
Photo Date:  3/7/1970  Upload Date: 7/28/2010 5:50:10 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MILW 2049(GP40)
Views:  566   Comments: 1
leave him alone
Title:  leave him alone
Description:  maybe someday he will hire out and then I can go on vacation! So it was in those days, when rail fans were not something about which anyone worried all that much! Maybe there were not that many of us and often times we were the next guys that the railroad hired!
Photo Date:  3/9/1970  Upload Date: 8/9/2010 3:18:36 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NP 713(S4)
Views:  1671   Comments: 4
Switching ore cars
Title:  Switching ore cars
Description:  To me, GN ore cars looked like ore cars because of their color and also maybe because I saw more of them than any of the others. The thing that I like about these NP ore cars is that filled with coal or sand or gravel/ ballast, they look right at home and not out of place!
Photo Date:  3/9/1970  Upload Date: 8/9/2010 3:07:13 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NP 713(S4)
Views:  980   Comments: 0
3 NP Alcos now BN
Title:  3 NP Alcos now BN
Description:  I was in the US Navy and not at home, when the world changed from that which it once was! And later when I was able to hire out on the BN in the summer of 1978 (which was 10 years after I hired out on the Milwaukee), even all of this was then gone! As were many other things also. I was glad that I was not there to see it change!
Photo Date:  1/9/1971  Upload Date: 8/9/2010 2:56:02 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BN 912(S2) BN 904(S2) BN 923(S4)
Views:  1369   Comments: 0
3 Alcos--- after the merger
Title:  3 Alcos--- after the merger
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/9/1971  Upload Date: 8/10/2010 2:40:36 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BN 912(S2) BN 904(S2) BN 923(S4)
Views:  1090   Comments: 0
switching ore cars
Title:  switching ore cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/9/1971  Upload Date: 8/10/2010 2:36:51 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 911(S2)
Views:  441   Comments: 0
switching ore cars
Title:  switching ore cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/9/1971  Upload Date: 8/10/2010 2:38:18 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 911(S2)
Views:  575   Comments: 0
switching ore cars
Title:  switching ore cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/9/1971  Upload Date: 8/10/2010 2:34:52 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 911(S2)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
after the merger
Title:  after the merger
Description:  NP colors--- BN number
Photo Date:  1/10/1971  Upload Date: 8/15/2010 5:53:56 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BN 909(S2)
Views:  841   Comments: 0
on the turntable
Title:  on the turntable
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/10/1971  Upload Date: 8/15/2010 5:48:00 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 915(S4)
Views:  649   Comments: 1
the EPA would have a fit
Title:  the EPA would have a fit
Description:  Dont you just love those Alcos, they could make some smoke!
Photo Date:  1/10/1971  Upload Date: 8/15/2010 5:50:37 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 915(S4)
Views:  921   Comments: 0
the EPA would have a fit
Title:  the EPA would have a fit
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/10/1971  Upload Date: 8/15/2010 5:51:46 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 915(S4)
Views:  448   Comments: 1
the EPA would have a fit
Title:  the EPA would have a fit
Description:  love those Alco's!
Photo Date:  1/10/1971  Upload Date: 8/15/2010 5:46:37 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 915(S4)
Views:  673   Comments: 0
one winter day
Title:  one winter day
Description:  a classic GN wooden caboose
Photo Date:  1/12/1971  Upload Date: 9/15/2010 1:16:57 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  288   Comments: 0
cold and overcast
Title:  cold and overcast
Description:  the BN merger had arrived and the GN goat was now frozen in time! Some of us still remember, but the sad truth is that most people do not know and do not care that he even ever existed. The sleek, new streamlined "Big Sky Blue" image had lasted only a few short years and now he was fading into the pages of history. Faded but not forgotten by those of us who once knew and loved him!
Photo Date:  1/12/1971  Upload Date: 6/4/2010 8:33:22 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 6110(SD9)
Views:  774   Comments: 0
in another place and time
Title:  in another place and time
Description:  When I took this picture, I was a young stallion about 23 years old and our son was 6 weeks old. I was a young sailor in the US Navy going to submarine school! I did not want to, but I did not want to be in the army in that place in SE Asia, where our underwear is now made! I'm now older than this caboose which was built in 1914 and I had no idea at the time that in about 6 and 1/2 years, I would be back home in St Paul, Minnesota going to dispatchers school on the Burlington Northern Railroad! The 2 cars in this picture are CN 546738 and BN 455990. Perhaps there are clues in life that can tell us ahead of time, where we are going and the things that we might do when we get there! At that time, I had no idea that I would retire with 30 years service as a trick dispatcher and over 40 years railroad service! When I started on the Milwaukee Road in St Paul after I hired out and took my first rules exam in La Crosse, Wisconsin--- I was only 19 years old and I had not yet a clue as to how and where that I would fit into that which James J Hill called, his great adventure!
Photo Date:  10/30/1972  Upload Date: 5/14/2010 1:08:00 AM
Location:  New London, CT
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  306   Comments: 3
Somewhere out on the road
Title:  Somewhere out on the road
Description:  CV 4551 with white flags and class lamps indicating that the dispatcher had created an "extra" train. Notice the engine bell over the headlight which might be saying that they ran long nose leading.
Photo Date:  10/30/1972  Upload Date: 5/13/2010 11:15:05 PM
Location:  New London, CT
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  CV 4551(GP9)
Views:  571   Comments: 3
White flags and bar codes
Title:  White flags and bar codes
Description:  Remember those early bar codes that were used to scan and identify equipment?!
Photo Date:  10/30/1972  Upload Date: 5/13/2010 11:20:54 PM
Location:  New London, CT
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  CV 4551(GP9)
Views:  425   Comments: 4
in the yard
Title:  in the yard
Description:  CV 4558 switching in the yard. It seems that the Central Vermont (wearing CN green and yellow) likes to fly white flags, indicating an "extra" train that the dispatcher had created, because there was not a schedule that was useful in running the train.
Photo Date:  10/30/1972  Upload Date: 5/13/2010 11:09:05 PM
Location:  New London, CT
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CV 4558(GP9)
Views:  644   Comments: 1
we said goodbye
Title:  we said goodbye
Description:  I think that it was when we lived for a very short time in Norwich. It was a long time ago!
Photo Date:  10/30/1972  Upload Date: 5/13/2010 11:43:07 PM
Location:  Norwich, CT
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  499   Comments: 0
it's all gone now
Title:  it's all gone now
Description:  faded into the dusty pages of some old history book, about which few if even that many know or care. This was from our New England colored leaves trip, when we left New London and headed north following the Central Vermont. We made it to White River Junction, it was beautiful trip!
Photo Date:  10/30/1972  Upload Date: 7/1/2010 2:17:41 AM
Location:  Yantic, CT
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Bridge,Station,Signal,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  371   Comments: 2
when there was...
Title:  when there was...
Description:  on the Central Vermont, Yantic was the next station north of Norwich. We lived there for a short time while I was going to submarine school in New London, in that time when I was in the US Navy! Not that I wanted to be, I just simply wanted to be somewhere else much less! Those of you who remember having draft cards, will understand!
Photo Date:  10/30/1972  Upload Date: 7/1/2010 1:41:53 AM
Location:  Yantic, CT
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Bridge,Station,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  372   Comments: 3

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